impregnate vs imbue

impregnate and imbue both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
impregnate	No	No	Yes	No
imbue	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, imbue is a hyponym of impregnate; that is, imbue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than impregnate:

Other hyponyms of impregnate include medicate, alcoholise, alcoholize, soak, ammonify, thoriate, stuff, charge, drench, imbrue.

impregnate (verb)	imbue (verb)
make pregnant	suffuse with color
fertilize and cause to grow	fill, soak, or imbue totally
infuse or fill completely	spread or diffuse through
fill, as with a certain quality